State of the Climate in Asia 2024
<p>The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing
Climate Change
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Greenhouse talks end with modest progress
After an all-night session ending two weeks of sometimes contentious and bureaucratic talks, negotiators from more than 170 nations attending a conference on global warming wrapped up the event
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Confused roots
Asian or African, the origin is the same, say researchers who trace the first Chinese to the dark continent
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Making science of mumbo jumbo
Scientists compile India's ethnic knowledge. They find a veritable gold mine
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Dam in protest
GREEN PEACE activists have built a dam on Israel's Kishon river to block toxic effluents from flowing into the Mediterranean Sea. The effluents are mainly discharged by the heavy petrochemical
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Shifting the blame
About five lakh trees were felled by the IAF last year. Till today, no action has been taken
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Safe and profitable
Environmentally-sound farming techniques can be up to 40 per cent more profitable than currently popular methods. Integrated farm management (IFM), a new system, allows insecticides to be sprayed
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Death in the air
Environmental pollution could be responsible for 40 per cent of all deaths world wide
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Business nonsense
The Globe is getting warmer. But the only contribution of US businesses is an advertising blitz and political arm twisting to discredit climate science
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Countdown to extinction?
As the Arctic Heats up, black guillemots are disappearing from Alaska
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Climate Control
Politics gets the better of common sense on the issue of global warming. At the upcoming climate change talks in Buenos Aires, US led developed countries will try to ensure that ceilings on non domestic emission curbs do not materialise. They will press f